Arcangelo Sassolino

Arcangelo Sassolino (born 1967) is an Italian artist known for his sculptures that uses technology.

Early life Sassolino was born in 1967 in Vicenza, Italy. He was raised in Trissino, near Vicenza, in the north-east of Italy. In his 20s, he created a three-dimensional puzzle game recalling the Rubik's Cube, and was hired by Robert Fuhrer and Nextoy, LLC, representatives of Casio Creative Products, for which worked for 6 years in New York, inventing and developing original and innovative toys and games. In 1996 Sassolino went back to Italy, where he worked on marble sculpture in Pietrasanta.

Artistic Path In Sassolino's works the spectators find themselves in front of well known industrial materials, such as stainless steel, glass or concrete. He uses these materials into mechanical/thermodynamical fantastic machines, that make the elements reach their limits: extreme speed, friction, gravity, heat, pressure.

Sassolino's sculptures are inorganic performances in which machines take life, get broken by contrast and conflict of forces, on the verge of a breakdown (which is a fundamental aspect of his work). He works around concepts such caducity, loss, unpredictability, danger, failure.

Solo exhibitions Superdome, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. 29/5/2008 – 24/8/2008 Time Tomb, Z33 House for Contemporary Art], Hasselt. 0/5/2010 – 29/8/2010 Piccolo animismo, Macro, Rome. 9/3/2011 – 12/6/2011 Not Human, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 15/1/2016 – 3/4/2016 Mechanism of Power, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt. 19/2/2016 – 17/4/2016 Canto V, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano. 21/9/ 2016 – 15/1/2017 Matter Revealed Repetto Gallery, London. 4/10/2017 – 29/10/2017

Group exhibitions Materia-Niente, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice. 26/4/2001 – 30/6/2001 Temi & variazioni La scultura italiana del XXI secolo, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan. 29/10/2010 – 30/ 1/ 2011 Under Destruction, Museum Tinguely, Basel – 15/10/2010 – 23/1/2011; Swiss Institute, New York 6/4/2011 – 8/5/2011 Art and the City Zürich-West. 9/6/2012 – 23/9/2012 Francis Bacon e la condizione esistenziale nell'arte contemporanea, CCC Strozzina, Florence – 5/10/2012 – 27/1/2013 Follia Continua ! 104 Le Centroquatre, Paris – 21/10/2015 – 21/11/2015 The Transported Man [Broad Art Museum], East Lansing. 29/4/2017 – 22/10/2017 Porto Marghera 100 Doge's Palace, Venice, 4/11/2017 – 28/1/2018